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Mad Love movie storyline. The high-school student Matt Leland lives with his twin brother and sister and his father in a house by the lake. When the teenager Casey Roberts moves to the house on the other side of the lake, Matt snoops into her room with his telescope. They meet each other and soon they fall in love with each other.
One day, Matt is taking a test at school and Casey activates the fire alarm to stop the test. She is suspended and her father decides to check her into a psychiatric institution. However Matt breaks her out of the hospital. They travel in Matt’s car and have lots of fun until the day Matt discovers that Casey has bipolar disorder with periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. When she tries to commit suicide, Matt realizes that she needs specialized help.
Mad Love is a 1995 teen romantic drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Richard Chaim, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Amy Sakasitz, Kevin Dunn, Elaine Miles, Sharon Collar, Selene H. Vigil and Valerie M. Agnew. The screenplay was written by Paula Milne. The original music score is composed by Andy Roberts.
About the Story
In Seattle, straight-laced Matt Leland (O’Donnell) falls in love with Casey Roberts (Barrymore), the new girl at their high school who’s from Chicago. They begin a sexual relationship. His father disapproves of this and her parents try to stop them from continuing to see each other.
She deliberately sets off the fire alarm at school, knowing that there is no fire there, and is subsequently suspended. She has an argument with her parents when they tell her they are sending her to a boarding school. She takes an overdose and her parents subsequently arrange to have her committed. Matt helps Casey escape from an acute psychiatric ward, and as they run away they both deal with her borderline personality disorder.
Casey is eccentric in nature. Her impulsiveness and extreme risk-taking attitude and behavior is attributed to her illness, in which she experiences severe highs and lows of emotion. Her frequent intense feelings, of passion towards Matt and of fear and destructiveness, dominate her persona. Throughout the relationship, Matt selflessly puts her needs before his. The severity of this increases as her mental state worsens.
Heading toward Mexico in his SUV, Casey becomes increasingly reckless and over-emotional. They crash and abandon the vehicle. They hitchhike, accepting a lift from a salesman (Liev Schreiber). He puts his hand on her crotch and Casey puts her lit cigarette on his face. He throws her out and a fight ensues between him and Matt. They steal his car and continue their journey. Casey becomes more distressed and Matt does his best to help her.
He becomes scared, and after Casey threatens suicide, and also threatens to kill Matt with a gun she took from the glove compartment in the salesman’s car, they return to Seattle and their families, where she is readmitted to the psychiatric hospital. Matt goes home and later receives a letter from Casey telling him she has moved back to Chicago and now feels significantly better. Casey says she has good memories of their time together.
Mad Love (1995)
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Starring: Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Richard Chaim, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Amy Sakasitz, Kevin Dunn, Elaine Miles, Sharon Collar, Selene H. Vigil, Valerie M. Agnew
Screenplay by: Antonia Bird
Production Design by: David Brisbin
Cinematography by: Fred Tammes
Film Editing by: Jeff Freeman
Costume Design by: Eugenie Bafaloukos
Set Decoration by: Gene Serdena
Art Direction by: Mark Worthington
Music by: Andy Roberts
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: May 26, 1995
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